In belatedly 2011, Blogger Engineering gave us a novel Blogger characteristic - the mightiness to
redirect whatever URL inward a blog, to whatever other URL inward the blog.
Like whatever feature, nosotros works life
an immediate role for it - something much requested, for a adept while. Other people guide maintain works life to a greater extent than uses for the redirection characteristic - too all the same others guide maintain works life confusion.
The syntax used inward the redirection "From" too "To" values is non ever obvious - too occasionally at that spot is confusion virtually
what tin - too can't - survive done amongst redirection.
This is the URL of this post.
Using the redirection feature, I tin redirect precisely about other URL
in this blog, to this post service - or conversely, I tin redirect the URL of this post service to precisely about other URL,
in this blog.
You tin alone redirect within the blog. Both the "From" too "To" values inward "Custom Redirects" convey whatever static weblog URL,
less the base of operations URL of that blog. You cannot specify the base of operations URL - then all redirections
will survive within the weblog itself.
You tin redirect the weblog abode page display, within the blog. The initial role for the redirection characteristic (at least, for me) was to
replace the Home page of the blog, amongst precisely about other page or post - possibly, this post.
From: /
To: /2012/12/redirecting-any-url-in-your-blog-to.html
I could modify the Home page of this blog, to starting fourth dimension all novel readers on
the Topics Index page.
From: /
To: /p/topics.html
You tin redirect 1 specific post service URL reference, within the blog. If I was to modify the Title of this post, when re published,
the URL would non change. If I wanted to modify the URL of this post, I could redirect the desired URL, to the actual URL.
From: /2012/12/redirecting-any-urls-in-your-blog.html
To: /2012/12/redirecting-any-url-in-your-blog-to.html
You tin brand a shorter URL, for slow access within or exterior the blog. If I want to let this post service to survive accessed from a shorter URL, I tin produce that. If yous click on the shorter URL (below), yous volition banker's complaint that yous all the same run across the longer URL inward the browser address window!
From: /redirecting-any-url-in-your-blog-to.html
To: /2012/12/redirecting-any-url-in-your-blog-to.html
I late created a shortcut to my Topics index, every bit "
blogging.nitecruzr.net/topics".
From: /topics
To: /p/topics.html
And
here is a demonstration of a custom redirect, to
my magic post service virtually custom redirects.
From: /SimpleURL
To: /2013/01/blogger-magic-redirecting-url-in-your.html
Pick whatever 2 URLs, inward the same blog. To buy the farm the "From" too "To" values for whatever redirection, I precisely convey whatever 2 URLs inward the same blog. Choose whatever 2 examples - 1 for "From", the other for "To".
- The Home page: http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/
- A post: /search?q=
- A static page: http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/p/topics.html
- A label search: http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/search/label/Redirecting
- A shortcut URL: http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/topics
And drib the base of operations URL:
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net Giving:
- The Home page: /
- A post: /2012/12/redirecting-any-url-in-your-blog-to.html
- A static page: /p/topics.html
- A label search: /search/label/Redirecting
- A shortcut URL: /topics
Having developed the proper "From" too "To" values,
adding a "Custom Redirects" entry is elementary enough.
Make a cleaner "menu bar" display, if yous redirect the abode page. Having setup a useful complement of Pages, too redirected the Home page, yous may want to take away the "Home" page tab. Just edit the Pages gadget, using the dashboard Layout wizard, or the on weblog quick edit prototype - non the dashboard Pages sorcerer - too de pick out the "Home" page.
H5N1 elementary example, showing the result, may survive seen inward my demonstration blog,
Home Page Redirected To Label Search.
From: /
To: /search/label/Home%20Page
There are precisely about subtle limitations. Note that a label search displays
a fixed issue of xx posts, regardless of the "Show at most" / "Number of posts on principal page" setting. If this is a work for your blog, yous tin explicitly laid maximum label search size, using
the "max-results" modifier inward the "To" value.
You may too want to
remove the "Showing posts amongst label ..." notice, if yous similar a cleaner display. In my demonstration weblog (mentioned above), I did non produce this - to brand my examples to a greater extent than obvious.
The possibilities hither are endless. Just role mutual feel - too again, banker's complaint
the limits on redirection.
Click
here, for instructions. Note again, that the actual address, displayed inward the browser address window, volition non change. Note again:
by design, yous cannot specify the base of operations URL - then all redirecting
will survive within the weblog itself Other than the latter limitations, though, this is a pretty powerful characteristic - when yous empathize the design.
